sessment.

power in all such cases to confirm such assessment, or amend the To amend assame, and direct a new assessment to be made in the manner hereinbefore directed, by assessors to be appointed as aforesaid.

be delivered to

§ 11. All assessments for improvements authorized by the two Assessment to preceding sections of this act, shall be made upon the real estate treasurer. included in the assessment roll returned as aforesaid; a copy of which, when perfected as aforesaid, duly certified by the clerk of the board of trustees, shall be delivered to the treasurer of the town for collection, who shall proceed in the collecting thereof in the same way as in ordinary taxes.

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§12. Any assessments in compliance with the provisions of Shall be a lien. this act, shall be a lien on the property so assessed, until the same

shall be paid.

§ 13. In any suit or proceeding in which the president and trus- Record not netees of the town of Milwaukee are parties, or are interested, in cessary. which the cause of action shall hereafter accrue, it shall not be necessary, in order to establish the due organization of said town, that a record of the proceedings of the votes of said town, holden on the first Monday of May, A. D. 1839, in relation to the adoption of the act of which this is amendatory, be produced; said town being hereby declared to be a body corporate for all the purposes specified in the said act, and all other acts in amendment thereto.

§14. The president and trustees shall have power to appoint Powers. all necessary officers to carry into effect any ordinance, regulation

or bye-law in force.

§ 15. Sections five and twenty-one of the act to which this is Repealing secamendatory, together with all other acts contravening the provisions

of this act, are hereby repealed.

tion.

taxable.

§ 16. That all burying grounds, and grounds set apart for public Grounds not use, shall hereafter be exempt from county, corporate, and all other tax.

Re-considered and passed by the House of Representatives, February 17th, 1842, after being returned by the Governor without his signature, twenty-two members voting for and one against IT JOHN CATLIN, Chief Clerk. Re-considered and passed by the Council, February 18th, 1842, after being returned by the Governor with his objections.

the bill.

GEO. BEATTY, Secretary.

AN ACT to provide for the payment of Territorial expenses therein named.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin:

§ 1. That there shall be paid out of the moneys in the Territorial treasury not otherwise appropriated, the followings sums:

To J. T. Wilson, for making iron bolts for capitol, fifteen dollars. To Nathaniel C. Prentiss, building commissioner, for his expenses attending court in Iowa county, in suit Territory vs. Doty and others, forty dollars.

To same, for expenses in attending court in Walworth county, same cause, twenty-one dollars and fifty cents.

To same, for twenty-eight days services in attendance on said suits, fifty-six dollars.

To same, as building commissioner, under the act for the completion of the capitol, one hundred and fifty dollars.

To A. A. Bird, sheriff, for services in serving process and attending suits as witness in suit of Territory vs. Doty and others, sixty dollars and twelve cents.

To C. D. Davis, for carrying witnesses to court in Walworth county, per order of building commissioner; twenty-five dollars. To Edward McSherry, for clerks' fees, in suits Territory vs. Doty, Morrison, Bird, O'neill & Co., fifty-nine dollars.

To John Bracken, sheriff of Iowa county, for service of process in suits of Territory vs. Doty, Morrison, Bird & Co., seventeen dollars and fifty cents.

To J. A. Noonan, for publishing proposals for completing the capitol, ten dollars.

To H. N. Wells, for services as attorney of the Territory of Wisconsin vs. Wisconsin Bank, and also in suit vs. J. D. Doty, by request of building commissioner; and also for services going to Mackinac and Chicago, three hundred and ninety dollars, which shall be in full of all services against the Territory.

To Thomas Eastman, for advertising proposals for completing capitol, per order of commissioner, ten dollars.

To Nathaniel T. Parkison, for serving subpœnas in Territorial suits vs. Doty, Morrison, Bird & Co., nineteen dollars and ten

cents.

To Daniel Wells, Jr. for attending at court at Green Bay in suit Territory vs. Wisconsin Bank, seventy-five dollars.

To Mortimer M. Jackson, attorney general, for professional services in suit of Territory vs. Wisconsin Bank, one hundred and forty dollars.

To R. L. Ream, balance of his account vs. Territory, per report, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.

To J. A. Noonan, for printing the Governor's proclamation for sale of canal lands, as per order of George H. Walker, acting canal commissioner, (to be paid out of the canal funds) forty-five dollars.

To Thomas L. Ogden, for services as engineer on the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal, from October 13th, (1841, to be paid out of the canal funds,) three hundred dollars.

To Harrison Reed, for publishing proclamation of sale of canal lands, by order of the Governor, and postponement of the sale, forty-eight dollars, (to be paid out of the canal funds.)

To William W. Wyman, for advertising in the Madison Express the Milwaukee and Rock River canal lands for sale, seventytwo dollars, (to be paid out of the canal funds.)

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To John Delaney, for publishing proposals for completion of the capitol, in the Mineral Point Free Press, five dollars.

To J. T. Clark, auditor of the Territory, the sum of fifty dollars, for incidental expense of said office for the past year, and up to the next session of the Legislature, the sum of fifty dollars, to be paid out of the Territorial treasury.

§ 2. That the auditor of the Territory be and is hereby authorized to issue to the several persons entitled to appropriations by virtue of this act, certificates of the amount due to each respectively, and that said certificates be countersigned by the treasurer of the Territory.

Boundary of county.

Attached to Io. wa county.

AN ACT to establish the county of Richland.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin :

§ 1. That all the district of [country] lying within the following described limits, viz: commencing at the Wisconsin river, where the line between the ranges of two and three east, of the fourth principal meridian, crosses said river, thence along said line to the northern boundary of township twelve; thence west, along said line, until it intersects with the western line of range two west, of the fourth principal meridian; thence south, along said line, to the main channel of the Wisconsin river; thence up the middle of the main channel of said river to the place of beginning, shall be and the same is hereby constituted a separate county, by the name of Richland.

§ 2. The said county of Richland is hereby attached, temporarily, to the county of Iowa, for all county and judicial purposes; Assessors of and the county commissioners of the county of Iowa are hereby Iowa county to assess property required to cause the assessors in said county of Iowa to assess and include in their assessment roll, all of the real and personal property of the inhabitants of said county of Richland, which may by law be assessed in the county of Crawford, and make return thereof as required by law, which property shall be subject to be taxed at the same rate which property in the county of Iowa is taxed, and collected in the manner provided by law.

How taxed.

Commission'rs to locate seat of justice.

§3. That Abner Nichols, James Murphy and John Ray, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to locate the county seat of said county; in which location they will have due regard to the present as well as the probable future population of said county; said location to be made at or near the centre of said county, or on the Wisconsin river, as may seem most advanta geous. And should the location be made on public land, the said county commissioners of Iowa county are hereby authorized to take such steps as may be necessary to secure to the county of Richland the right of pre-emption, as provided by an act of Congress, approved May 26, 1824, entitled "An act granting to the

counties or parishes of each state and territory of the United States in which the public lands are situated, the right of preemption to quarter sections of lands for seats of justice within the same;" and they are hereby authorized to borrow the sum of two May borrow hundred dollars, at a rate of interest not exceeding ten per cent money. per annum, for a period not exceeding five years, for the purchase of one hundred and sixty acres of land under the provision of said pre-emption law above referred to, and may mortgage said land for the payment of said money so borrowed.

land for county

seat.

county.

§ 4. That should the said commissioners be unable to find a May purchase suitable tract of public land on which to locate said county seat, they are hereby authorized to make the location on individual property: Provided, the proprietor or proprietors shall convey in fee Lots to be dosimple, free of expenses, to the county commissioners of Iowa nated to the county, in trust for said county of Richland, every fourth lot in any town which may be laid out as the said seat of justice for the said county of Richland: Provided, further, that the whole number of lots so ceded to said county shall not exceed thirty acres. § 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED, February 18, 1842.

AN ACT declaratory of an act entitled "An act prescribing the terms of office of certain county officers, and for other purposes."

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin, as follows:

§ 1. The several county officers elected at the last general Term of office. election, under the provisions of the act of which this is declara

tory, are hereby constituted and declared to be in office from the first Monday of January, 1842, during the term for which they were severally elected, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

§ 2. No act performed or to be performed by any of said offi- Acts of officers cers, shall be deemed invalid by the reason that the act under legalized.which they were severally elected did not take effect until the

day on which the last general election took place. S

§ 3. This act shall not be so construed as to effect the tenure Not to effect of office of those officers elected or to be elected in pursuance of other acts.